The recital ended in seriocomic despair, with the rueful statement that "the impression I probably made on her darkened mind was, that it was the American custom to breakfast children on bread soaked in whisky instead of light Italian wine." ❋ Unknown (1910)
What Marshall is after is a kind of seriocomic panorama of working-class love and loneliness in the big city. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females. ❋ Dave Astor (2011)
Rumpole fans can savor a bailiff's dozen of Rumpole's seriocomic adventures in "Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories" Viking, 502 pages, $30 . ❋ Unknown (2011)
Chris Rock examines the cultural relationship between African Americans and their hair in this seriocomic documentary. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But his almost seriocomic The Black Obelisk has several funny scenes that offer comic relief in the otherwise haunting, ominous tale set in 1923 Germany. ❋ Dave Astor (2012)
In his introduction to this collection, a former Rolling Stone editor Paul Scanlon writes about how the young Thompson used to enter their San-Francisco-based office "with a bowlegged quickstep, making the zigzagging seriocomic, dramatic entrance," then plop down his leather rucksack while wordlessly removing the contents, which "usually included something edible, like a grapefruit, a carton of Dunhills, a large police flashlight, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a can of liquid Mace." ❋ Matt Labash (2011)
The star of Middlesex is the gender-conflicted Calliope/Cal, but Jeffrey Eugenides' seriocomic 2002 novel is also an Ellis Island/melting-pot story. ❋ Dave Astor (2011)
NY's Muslim punk scene comes under scrutiny in this seriocomic adaptation of Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This seriocomic slice of life is best when we're at the diner or on a hike with these superbly acted smaller-than-life not-quite-heroes Braugher, Ray Romano and Scott Bakula. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She's been one of TV's most reliable performers ever since making her series debut 20 years ago in an episode of Quantum Leap, and now she's reuniting with Scott Bakula on TNT's seriocomic sleeper. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Created by Saatchi Saatchi France, the ad takes Courrier's "Learn to anticipate" tagline and imagines a world where if the architects of the World Trade Center had only been smart enough to anticipate the 9/11 attacks -- by making the Twin Towers much shorter -- the events of that day would have simply been a seriocomic scenario in which the hijacked passenger planes "missed" the buildings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And when he married Yoko Ono in 1969, they used their honeymoon to stage two seriocomic "Bed-Ins" to publicize the antiwar cause. ❋ William Easterly (2010)
TNT's dramedy took some time to find its voice in its first season, but with a trio of Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond vets Tucker Cawley, Lew Schneider and cocreator Mike Royce now on the writing staff, the show is settling into a pleasingly seriocomic tone. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This seriocomic slice-of-midlife-crisis drama returns for a second season with its three best buds of a certain age Ray Romano, Andre Braugher, Scott Bakula, each terrific adjusting to new circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I gotta give [Hardee's] an extended [golf clap] this morning. In an age where all of [the fast] food joints are extending their salad and yogurt offerings, Hardee's has apparently said "F-that noise, we're going the other way, add bacon to every damn thing including the ice cream." Beaver B prime example of one who is a seriocomic. ❋ Bgirl (2013)
